MENASHA SCHOOLS

Community Learning Center:

After School Matters at Jefferson School spent the month of February focused on activities promoting National Heart Awareness Month. Students learned about the importance of exercise and eating healthy. The students also explored more about the heart with fun games such as the active heart relay race.

Banta Bilingual Elementary:

Students will take part in a Grand Lunch Event on Friday.

Butte des Morts Elementary:

The school’s “Culver’s Night” will be 4-7 p.m. Monday.

Clovis Grove Elementary:

Students in fifth grade will show off their wax museum Thursday in the commons. The first showing will be at 10:10 a.m. and the second showing at 11 a.m.

Gegan Elementary:

Pickup for the dip fundraiser will be 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. March 14.

Jefferson/Nicolet Elementary:

Parent-teacher conferences will be 3:40 to 7:40 p.m. March 15 in the gym.

Maplewood Middle:

Career Cruising Lessons will be March 16.

Menasha High:

Menasha High is participating in The Family’s Help for the Homeless hygiene drive. The effort continues through March 11. Families are invited to donate personal care items including cleaning supplies, feminine needs, hair care, deodorant, laundry soap, paper towels and more.

St. Mary:

The first-grade students enjoyed celebrating their teacher’s birthday. Three students even made special T-shirts for the birthday celebration.

Trinity Lutheran:

Students in grades K4 and K5 had a dental visit from Keesler Ortho. They learned about healthy foods, teeth, brushing and flossing.

Students in grades 5-8 went to see “Golden Dragon Acrobats” at the Performing Arts Center in Appleton.

NEENAH SCHOOLS

Alliance Charter:

Alliance and Roosevelt held a family cardboard challenge event on March 3. Family members came together to use their creativity in building items out of cardboard.

Clayton Elementary:

Clayton has a Little Lending Library to help students maintain and grow their reading skills. The library is a little red house located in the friendship garden in the front roundabout at the school. Students are encouraged to come and borrow a book and lend one for others to read.

Coolidge Elementary:

Coolidge held a week full of activities for Read Across America Week Feb. 27-March 2. Among the activities, students from Horace Mann Middle School read to kindergarten through second-grade students. There were dress-up days, STEM activities and daily trivia as well.

Hoover Elementary:

Hoover students participated in Google hangouts with students from other schools around the country for “Read Across America Week.” Students needed to ask questions and use geography skills to determine the location of the other class.

Lakeview Elementary:

Lakeview fifth-grade students learned how to cross country ski outside the school on Feb. 14. Thanks to Steve Eliasen for bringing equipment and giving a demonstration to the students.

Roosevelt Elementary:

Roosevelt and Alliance families held a bake sale during parent-teacher conferences and raised $545 that will be used to purchase and install a Buddy Bench on the playground.

Spring Road Elementary:

Spring Road will host a free family game night 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Families are invited to a night of “Minute to Win It” style games. Participants will compete in silly, unique and creative challenges.

Taft Elementary:

Taft book club students have been reading the book “Fish in a Tree” by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and shared thoughts on the book with book clubs from Hoover and Wilson during lunchtime through Google hangouts on Jan. 25 and Feb. 15.

Tullar Elementary:

Tullar students showed off their art creations with a first-ever Tullar Art Show during the parent-teacher conferences.

Washington Early Learning Center:

Four-year-old kindergarten registration for the 2018-19 school year will take place online beginning March 12. Information for the program was mailed to all prospective households within the School District on March 1.

Wilson Elementary:

Wilson held its first-ever family bingo and basket raffle event on March 4 in the gym. Proceeds from the event will go toward field trips.

Horace Mann Middle:

Horace Mann hosted an entrepreneurship experience after school on March 1; another is planned for April 19. Students will use critical thinking to explore and enhance their career aspirations. The opportunity is presented by the junior achievement program.

Shattuck Middle:

Shattuck and Horace Mann students are participating in the annual spring musical March 8-11. The show “Annie, Jr.” will take place at 7 p.m. March 8-9; 2 and 7 p.m. March 10; and 2 p.m. March 11 at Pickard Auditorium. Tickets are $6 each and available at the door.

Neenah High:

Neenah High School Downtown Campus students volunteer every Friday for nonprofits throughout the Fox Valley as well as for the Neenah schools to promote giving back to fellow students, teachers, schools and their community.

Fox Valley Christian Academy:

The fifth-grade class will hold its annual Historical Wax Museum from 12:25 to 1:35 p.m. Friday, both within the CBC Campus Center and rooms 205/207 of the school. Attendees will be able to meet historical figures who come to life at the touch of a button. Parents, friends and family are invited to attend.

Martin Luther:

Students in grades 1-4 will visit Fox Valley Lutheran High School Thursday to watch “Snow White.” The forensics team has a meet at Trinity, Neenah at 5 p.m. the same day.

On Saturday, the Boy Pioneers will gather at 3 p.m. for the Pine Car Derby. Anyone is welcome to come, watch and cheer.

The forensics team is back in action on Tuesday for the meet at FVLHS.

St. Gabriel:

The Pre-K class has been learning about animals and the different places they live. They recently learned about farm animals and also created a barnyard full of animals.

St. Margaret Mary:

Brown Family Dentistry recently visited the preschool class. Students learned about the ways they can keep their smile beautiful and their teeth healthy.

Trinity Lutheran:

Trinity students had special reading events on March 2, to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America. A visit from Fang, the Timber Rattlers’ mascot, started the day. Several guest readers came to read in classrooms.

St. Mary Catholic Middle:

Students recently participated in a Hoops for Heart event in physical education class. In class, students had the opportunity to compete in free throw, hot shot and hula hoop competitions. The free throw winners went 10 for 10, with the ‘hot shot’ winner scoring 38 points in a minute. The hula hoop winner went for more than 32 minutes. They raised $1,502 for the American Heart Association.

St. Mary Catholic High:

The members of the Liturgical Choir performed Feb. 4 at St. Mary Parish in Menasha. The choir is led by Tara Opsteen-Van Dyke.